A survey conducted by Intel reports that the commute of the average mass transit user takes up 240 hours of his or her time per year. The number of people who commute by mass transit make up about 12% of the population in Canada.
Intel thinks the best way for corporations to squeeze a little productivity out of that time would be to outfit their commuting employees with shiny new laptops or other portable computers, preferably with Intel Inside (tm). This page says instead of spending money, time, and energy on more gadgets, businesses should be lobbying municipal, provincial, and federal governments to improve public transit in cities across Canada.
Of course, most corporate board members have way more shares in Exxon, Shell, BP, and Amoco than they do in Bombardier or Simens, so they'll help themselves before they help their own workers. Besides, the only 'public' entity that capitalists ever support is an IPO.
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